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Manuel 'Manny' Perez (17 June 1914–18 January 1981) was a Mexican American animator and animation director whose career spanned 40 years, from the 1940s to the 1980s, and best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts, working on such cartoons as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.〔〔(Beck, Jerry ''The Animated Movie Guide'' A Capella Books (2005) pg 44 ''Google Books'' )〕〔(Reid, John Howard ''Science-Fiction and Fantasy Cinema: Classic Films of Horror, Sci-Fi and the Supernatural'' Lulu.com (2007) pg 14 ''Google Books'' )〕〔(Perez on the British Film Institute website )〕 Later in his career he worked on Fritz the Cat〔('Fritz the Cat' on ''The New York Times'' website )〕 and ''The Lord of the Rings''.〔(Manny Perez on ''The New York Times'' website )〕 Born in 1914 in Morenci in Arizona, in 1917 his family moved to Los Angeles where Perez later attended high school. An athlete, he took part in football, baseball and track. Two years after graduating he was hired by Leon Schlesinger as a trainee animator. On 17 April 1938 he married Connie (née Perez). 'Manny' Perez worked on over 300 cartoons during the 'Golden Age of American Animation', mainly for Warner Bros. Cartoons, for whom he started animating in 1938,〔 but also for Bill Melendez Productions, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Hanna-Barbera. His first credited cartoon was ''Porky's Bear Facts'' (1941).〔('Porky's Bear Facts' on the Internet Movie Database )〕 Among the cartoons he animated were those featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweetie and Sylvester, Quick Draw McGraw, the ''Pink Panther'',〔(DePatie-Freleng Enterprises Filmography 1964-65 )〕 Charlie Brown, Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner, Doctor Dolittle, The Cat in the Hat, Fritz the Cat and Plastic Man, among many others.〔〔('Bugs Bunny in ''Carnival of the Animals'' by Manny Perez'- Animation Nation website )〕〔(Perez on the Internet Movie Database )〕 A member of the labor union The Screen Cartoonists Guild, Perez was one of the animators involved in the 'Looney Tunes Lock Out' of 1941, when Leon Schlesinger, who had been producing cartoons for Warner Bros. Cartoons since the mid-1930s, locked out those animators who had joined the Guild, including Perez. After six days Schlesinger relented and allowed them to go back to work.〔('The Screen Cartoonists Guild & Looney Tunes Lock Out' - The Animation Guild website )〕 Despite having worked for Friz Freleng for about ten years, the two did not get along. According to animator Greg Duffell in 1999:
In his later years Perez worked on ''Journey Back to Oz'' (1971); the animated version of ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978),〔(''The Lord of the Rings'' (1978) on the Internet Movie Database )〕 and ''The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show'' (1979).〔(Perez and ''Augie Doggie — Cat Happy Pappy'' )〕 He died in January 1981 aged 66 at Van Nuys in California. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manuel Perez (animator)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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